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This ground's half, stated plainly: no succession of named art teachers for Osceola's own schools stands in any record reached. Schools names no art teacher at Moran Elementary or at the township's earlier schools, and the Penn-Harris-Madison record this section could open names the high school's present art faculty only in exhibition lists — the Penn Kingsmen Art Gallery's 2022–23 exhibition sheet credits Mrs. Brown and Miss Bretz (ceramics), Miss Miller (drawing), Mrs. Hope and Miss Napoli (2D and 3D art), Mrs. Dunham (photography) and Miss Dunfee (digital/graphic design), and the 2017 Scholastic Art Awards list credits Penn's art teachers by initial and surname (B. Loth, B. Brown, B. Dunham, B. Miller among them). Those are a faculty at a date, at the boundary seat in Mishawaka where Osceola's older students go — not a teaching succession for this ground, and no earlier generation of the line is published anywhere this section reached.
The boundary succession the pattern names, dug at boundary size: the teacher whose bequest founded the museum is South Bend's, and her line is documented whole in the museum's own history. Carlotta Banta taught kindergarten at Perley School in South Bend for thirty-five years and bequeathed her life savings in her will toward an art center where, in her words as the museum prints them, "beautiful pictures would hang and where little children would come to look" — the bequest from which the South Bend Art Center opened in 1947, becoming the South Bend Museum of Art. The teaching line continues inside the institution she founded: Harold Zisla, the Art Center's director, was hired in 1966 to chair the Department of Fine Arts at IU South Bend — the appointment from which the Raclin School of the Arts descends — and the museum's Zisla Acquisition Fund still buys work in his name. Banta the schoolteacher to Zisla the director-teacher to the university department is the county's art-teaching succession, and it runs entirely at the county seat; Osceola's children meet it as visitors, students and Scholastic exhibitors, not as its seat.
The settler for this ground's half: the Penn-Harris-Madison school records — Moran Elementary's faculty record and the Penn art department's own course and staff history — are the settler for any Osceola-seated teaching line, with the county histories' teacher sketches (already read for other legs; no art teacher is sketched) as the negative's second leg. Until the district's records are read, the item closes as a named gap: the succession exists in the county, at boundary size above; on this ground it is unrecorded, not disproven.
Sources: Schools (banked) — no art teacher named. Penn-Harris-Madison Education Foundation, Penn Kingsmen Art Gallery exhibitions 2022–23 — the named Penn art faculty by course. Penn High School, "Penn students excel at Scholastic Art event" (January 26, 2017) — the 2017 teacher credits. South Bend Museum of Art, "Becoming SBMA" — Carlotta Banta's thirty-five years at Perley School and her bequest; the Art Center's 1947 opening; the Zisla Acquisition Fund. Indiana University Archives, Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts records — Harold Zisla hired 1966 to chair Fine Arts. Settler named: P-H-M district faculty and department records for Moran Elementary and Penn High School.